Friday, July 22, 2016

BUT, you are invited to follow me on my blog that I post to when I'm at home. Please realize that since I'll be skipping between college and home for
the next four years or so I'll also be skipping around blogs. Don't
worry, I'll warn you when I'm ready to skip :) Until I get back to school, enjoy
reading about me as I have adventures in Amish country.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Homeward Bound at last. My sister and I are excited to be headed back. I have to admit though. I miss college more and more. I'm miss the energy, the comradery, the speed, and the never-ending list of things to do. BUT, it's time for a new chapter.

Monday, July 11, 2016

That's it then! The semester is officially coming to a close. I'm in the throws of final tests, papers and projects. Thankfully, my professors believe in early in-class finals so I don't have to wait in line at the testing center. THANK YOU!

Anyway, today's closing social was the perfect break from all that's going on. In fat, my FHE group was the last to leave, we were enjoying ourselves that much.

At the very end, we were putting the chairs back in the loft and discovered a rack of old hats. We couldn't help it. We put on a couple and took a picture.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

I spent the weekend with my family in Boise. They flew over for my cousin's wedding and my sister and I drove up to see them. After church, all the cousins came over and we had a huge waffle dinner. My brother and I manned the irons while the little ones poured in the batter. It was such a fun evening. I can't wait to get home and spend all day every day with my family.

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

We've been doing peer labs recently, where we teach different science lessons that would be found in an elementary classroom. Today we learned about the life cycle of a butterfly and made one on our paper plates.
- Egg - marshmallow
- Caterpillar - gummy worm
- Cocoon - tootsie roll
- Butterfly - cracker

Cute huh?

This science class has been a blast. I've learned a lot, but it hasn't been stressful at all because (1) we have fun lessons like these and (2) the teacher is super relaxed.

Friday, June 17, 2016

Every Friday, six other friends and I get together at the Library Commons in a writing group. We've been meeting for about a year now, we exchange chapters, give each other feedback and take a half hour to do a writing prompt. It started with just my friend Evee and I, but slowly, we keep gaining more and more people.

We just set up a website for ourselves called Our Common Ground (because we meet in the Library Commons and because are all different, but we all love to write and that is our common ground. Drew (the one and only guy in our group) brought Jones Soda for us today and we had to take a picture.

Your Daily Dose of Fire

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is through embracing it that he realizes himself. ~Charles De Gaulle

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

Do not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. ~ William Jennings Bryan

Success isn't the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming then is what makes life meaningful. ~Joshua J. Marine

Your Daily Dose of Fire

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~ Anonymous

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not out darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. ~Marianne Williamson

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ D. Seuss

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~Marten Luther King Jr.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ~Napoleon Hill